About
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special, Education, Foundations, ad Research at East Carolina University. My scholarship is rooted in Critical Race Theory (CRT). I draw on CRT and critical and performance ethnography methodologies to highlight the interplay between structural racism and teacher practices and to promote teacher agency. I also serve as an Equity Coach for schools in North Carolina. Please see the links above for more on my publications, courses, and other activities. To inquire about my services as an Equity Coach, please email me at
benjamin.blaisdell@gmail.com.
Education
Ph.D.; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Culture, Curriculum, and Change; 2006
M.A., Hunter College, Teaching Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), 1996
B.A., East Asian Studies and Political Science, 1992 Publications
Blaisdell, B. (forthcoming). The new one-drop rule: challenging the persistence of white supremacy with in-service teachers. Teaching Education.
Blaisdell, B. (2016). Exorcising the racism phantasm: Racial realism in educational research. The Urban Review 48(2), 285-310.
Blaisdell, B. (2016). Schools as racial spaces: understanding and resisting structural racism. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education 29(2), 248-272.
Blaisdell, B. (2010). Critical race practice in the era of standards-based reform: The story of one elementary school. Peace Studies Journal, 3(1): 91-118.
Blaisdell, B. (2005). Seeing every student as a 10: Using critical race theory to engage white teachers’ colorblindness. International Journal of Educational Policy, Research, and Practice, 6(1): 3-22.
Blaisdell, B. (2004). Beyond binaries: rearticulating success in arts-based school reform. The Journal of Thought, 39(4): 75-88.
Books
Blaisdell, B. (2009). Seeing with Poetic Eyes: Critical Race Theory and Moving From Liberal to Critical Forms of Race Research in Sociology of Education. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Book Chapters
Blaisdell, B. (2017). Resisting redlining in the classroom: A collaborative approach to racial spaces analysis. In D. Morrison, S.A. Annamma, & D.D. Jackson (Eds.), Critical Race Spatial Analysis: A Search to Understand and Address Educational Inequity: Stylus Publishing.
Blaisdell, B. (2012). An academic in the classroom: uncovering and resisting the barriers to racial equity in public school. In S. Hughes & T. Berry (Eds.), The Evolving Significance of Race: Living, Learning, and Teaching. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
Blaisdell, B. (2005). Sitting with ourselves: How to work against white guilt in anti-racist teacher education. In S. Hughes (Ed.), What We Still Don’t Know About Race: How to Talk About it in the Classroom. Mellen Press: Lewiston, NY. Projects
I work as an equity coach in the Triangle and surrounding regions of North Carolina. My approach is a mix of instructional and cognitive coaching designed to help help teachers, administrators, and school develop and sustain antiracist practices. Rather than traditional professional development models that rely on top-down mandates, equity coaching involves working collaboratively with educators to create, pursue, and achieve their own goals for antiracism and cultural equity.
For any questions about Equity Coaching or to inquire about my services, please contact me at
benjamin.blaisdell@gmail.com
